Subject for April, 2018
Chapter 10. Natural Religion.
Subject: Wordsworth
It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature s...
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Chapter 9. Poetic Diction—“Daodamia”—“Evening Ode.”
Subject: Wordsworth
The Excursion appeared in 1814, and in the course of the next year Wordsworth republished his minor poems, so arranged as to indicate the faculty of the mind which he considered...
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Chapter 8. Children—Life at Rydal Mount—“The Excursion.”
Subject: Wordsworth
It may be well at this point to return to the quiet chronicle of the poet’s life at Grasmere; where his cottage was becoming too small for an increasing family. His eldest son, ...
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Chapter 7. “Happy Warrior,” And Patriotic Poems.
Subject: Wordsworth
The year 1805, which bereft Wordsworth of a beloved brother, brought with it also another death, which was felt by the whole English nation like a private calamity. The emotion ...
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Chapter 6. Sir George Beaumont—Death of John Wordsworth.
Subject: Wordsworth
The year 1803 saw the beginning of a friendship which formed a valuable element in Wordsworth’s life. Sir George Beaumont, of Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire, a descendant of the...
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Chapter 5. Marriage—Society—Highland Tour.
Subject: Wordsworth
With Wordsworth’s settlement at Townend, Grasmere, in the closing days of the last century, the external events of his life may be said to come to an end. Even his marriage to M...
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Chapter 4. The English Lakes.
Subject: Wordsworth
The lakes and mountains of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, are singularly fitted to supply such elements of moral sustenance as Nature’s aspects can afford to man. The...
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Chapter 3. Miss Wordsworth—Lyrical Ballads—Settlement at Grasmere.
Subject: Wordsworth
From among many letters of Miss Wordsworth’s to a beloved friend, (Miss Jane Pollard, afterwards Mrs. Marshall, of Hallsteads), which have been kindly placed at my disposal, I m...
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Chapter 2. Residence in London and in France.
Subject: Wordsworth
Wordsworth took his B.A. degree in January, 1791, and quitted Cambridge with no fixed intentions as to his future career. “He did not feel himself,” he said long afterwards, “go...
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Chapter 1. Birth and Education—Cambridge.
Subject: Wordsworth
I cannot, perhaps, more fitly begin this short biography than with some words in which its subject has expressed his own feelings as to the spirit in which such a task should be...
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